Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center  —  President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington's leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said.

Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024  —  In a move that should unleash harsh criticism and recriminations, the Democratic National Committee has decided against publicly releasing its long-awaited report on the 2024 election, which could end up protecting key actors inside …

'Don's Best Friend': How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women  —  The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship.  Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance.  Female bodies were currency.

Trump Moves to End Gender-Related Care for Minors, Threatening Hospitals That Offer It  —  Proposed new rules would punish the hospitals by pulling all federal financing.  Advocates say lawsuits will follow.  —  The federal government on Thursday acted to put an end to gender-related care …

Trump Media Targets Nuclear Fusion Through Merger With TAE  —  Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., the company behind Truth Social, is getting into nuclear fusion.  —  The company said Thursday it will merge with TAE Technologies Inc., a closely held fusion developer founded in 1998, in a transaction valued at more than $6 billion.

Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus  —  President Donald Trump's $1,776 checks for more than a million troops, announced Wednesday, come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members …

Trust these numbers?  Economists see a lot of flaws in delayed CPI report showing downward inflation … Thursday saw the release of a much lighter-than-expected consumer price report for November, breaking from the recent trend of sticky inflation.  —  Stocks jumped.  Yields fell.

Bari Weiss' Next CBS News Move: Town Halls With JD Vance, Sam Altman and Debates About God and Feminism  —  The news division is also planning a town hall with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in the ‘Things That Matter’ series, with Bank of America lined up as a sponsor.

Trump will sign order to ease marijuana restrictions  —  President Trump said Thursday he'll sign an executive order to relax federal restrictions on cannabis, instructing agencies to reclassify it as a less dangerous drug. … But the Wall Street Journal reported in August that Trump …

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga  —  TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. entity to a joint venture controlled by American investors, per an internal memo seen by Axios. … - Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi-based MGX will collectively own 45% of the U.S. entity.

This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like  —  Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.  —  The president of the United States just barged into America's living rooms like an angry, confused grandfather to tell us all that we are ungrateful whelps.

Stephen Miller's hard-line Mexico strategy morphed into deadly boat strikes  —  The Trump administration originally planned to go after Mexican drug cartels, but pivoted to Venezuela, according to current and former officials.  A trio of legal documents and directives have subsequently authorized an unorthodox lethal campaign.

Once Again, Health Care Proves to Be a Bitter Political Pill for G.O.P.  —  The inability to find a credible counter to the Affordable Care Act has long bedeviled Republicans and cost them at the polls.  It's threatening to do so again next year.  —  Congressional Republicans won big election victories …

Exclusive: Frustration mounts at Justice Department as it races to redact some Epstein files, sources say  —  Frustration is mounting inside the Justice Department as it races to redact thousands of pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein before they must be released Friday, multiple sources familiar with the process told CNN.

We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine.  It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.  —  Anthropic's Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom.  It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. … You'd toss Claudius's résumé in the trash immediately.

Arrest warrant issued in Brown shooting as authorities probe connection to MIT professor's killing, sources say  —  Law enforcement is investigating possible connections between the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday afternoon and the targeted killing of an MIT professor two days later, sources tell CBS News.

US Approves $11 Billion Arms Sale to Taiwan, Drawing China's Ire  —  The US has approved a package of arms sales to Taiwan worth up to $11 billion — one of its biggest ever — a move that drew criticism from Beijing.  —  The approvals announced late Wednesday by the State Department cover …

More photos from Epstein's estate released by House Democrats as deadline to release DOJ files looms  —  Congressional news Federal agencies Homes  —  Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate Thursday — the latest in a series of intermittent disclosures …

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned  —  Imagine I sent you back in time to July 2015 with the goal of saving liberal democracy in America.  Donald Trump announced his candidacy a month ago, the polls are showing him with a narrow lead, and the media …

Trump Pressed Georgia Speaker to Overturn State's Election Vote in 2020 Call  —  During much of the 12.5-minute call, President Trump reiterated his claims that he had won Georgia, a state he lost by more than 11,000 votes that year.  —  In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020 …

Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks  —  The Justice Department's program to root out violent “antifa” extremism is raising First Amendment concerns. … The Trump administration is embarking on an expansive effort to root out what it sees …

Trump weighs declaring Christmas Eve, Dec. 26 as federal holidays  —  President Trump is planning to issue an executive order establishing two new federal holidays: Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas, an administration official tells Axios. … - Most federal holidays are one day …

Illegal Immigrant Arrested for Murder One Day After Being Released from Jail  —  An illegal immigrant from El Salvador was arrested Wednesday after police say he shot a man to death inside a Reston, Va., home—just one day after being released from jail.  —  Authorities identified the suspect …

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence.  This Is the Story of Her Life  —  The Minnesota Speaker's closest friends and family open up for the first time  —  et me tell you about Melissa Hortman.  —  It's the early 2000s.  She and her husband, Mark …